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Researcher · Human Sciences Research Council · South Africa

Benjamin James Roberts

Benjamin James Roberts publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Safety Research, on topics such as Income, Poverty, and Inequality, Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare and Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction.

ORCID 0000-0002-0607-5447 OpenAlex
World rank
#526,994
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#1,973
of 29,826
Works
200
Citations
1.6k
Citations per work
8.0
h-index
18
i10-index 33Top 8% in Sociology and Political Science
Benjamin James Roberts

What does Benjamin James Roberts research?

Benjamin James Roberts's work is mostly in Social Sciences (42%), Health Professions (5%), Psychology (4%).

Everything else: 99 works · 49.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 92 works · 45.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 84 works · 42.1% of their workSociology and Political Science: 46 works · 22.9% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 17 works · 8.5% of their workSafety Research: 12 works · 5.8% of their workEducation: 10 works · 4.9% of their workPsychology: 8 works · 3.8% of their workSocial Psychology: 8 works · 3.8% of their workHealth Sciences: 9 works · 4.7% of their workHealth Professions: 9 works · 4.7% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 9 works · 4.7% of their workTHEIR WORKBenjamin JamesRoberts200works
Health Sciences5%Social Sciences46%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
  1. Everything else9949.4%
    1. Social Sciences8442.1%
    2. Psychology83.8%
    1. Health Professions94.7%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science23% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations8% of their works
  3. 3Safety Research6% of their works
  4. 4Education5% of their works
  5. 5General Health Professions5% of their works
  6. 6Social Psychology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Benjamin James Roberts's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Gender Inequality, Globalization, Income Inequality, Capability Approach, Poverty Measurement, Conditional Cash Transfers, School Subsidies and Well-being.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Gender Inequality532 topics
  2. Globalization362 topics
  3. Income Inequality362 topics
  4. Capability Approach291 topic
  5. Poverty Measurement291 topic
  6. Conditional Cash Transfers241 topic
  7. School Subsidies241 topic
  8. Well-being202 topics
  9. Positive Emotions131 topic
  10. Positive Psychology131 topic
  11. Constitutionalism111 topic
  12. Developmental Local Government111 topic
  13. South Africa81 topic
  14. protests81 topic
  15. African Philosophy71 topic
  16. Decolonization71 topic
  17. Political Economy71 topic
  18. Salutogenesis71 topic
  19. Sense of Coherence71 topic
  20. Welfare State71 topic

Where does Benjamin James Roberts work?

Benjamin James Roberts's main affiliation in the publication record is Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Benjamin James Roberts have?

OpenAlex counts 200 works and 1,592 citations for Benjamin James Roberts, an h-index of 18, ranking #526,994 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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